Radkey has scoured the Mormon database and, by searching for regions heavily populated with Jews before the Holocaust, found 19,000 deceased persons who had been baptized since 1993. In September of this year, she offered to sell her research to the Mormons, in the hopes of making ends meet while doing the work she believes in. She offered her decade's worth of work for $30,000 and a rate for her continued research of $18 an hour. The church has not expressed interest in the offer.

In the meantime, she keeps herself afloat by working at a local bookstore, where she reads tarot cards and performs past-life therapy. She has made some peace with her Catholic roots: Her two sons, now grown, were both educated in Jesuit schools. But she said she could never consider going back to the Catholic Church, because she has acquired a fierce loyalty to another group.